Photographs, vintage postcards and other ephemera


Saturday 29 December 2012

Tuesday 25 December 2012

To dear Pap and Mama

This is the only card in my Victorian scrap book where the reverse is visible; it's stuck down along one short edge. The verse is by Frances Ridley Havergal.

Saturday 22 December 2012

With the Compliments of the Season

A seasonal card from WW1 for this week's Sepia Saturday.
On the reverse: Harold Moyse, 11 Victoria Parade, Muswell Hill, N. and the Town, Enfield. The hand-written message reads With the Compliments of the Season from Marion & Tom to Mr & Mrs C. Moses.

Tom is wearing the uniform of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC); his wife Marion and their daughters are beautifully dressed. The family makes me think of my grandfather's photograph and I wonder whether Tom met a different fate.

My own Compliments of the Season to all my fellow Sepia Saturday participants.

Tuesday 18 December 2012

A Merry Christmas bright and gay

With only a week to go before Christmas, I'm posting seasonal cards for the next few days. This one is from my Victorian Scrap Book.

Saturday 15 December 2012

Love's enchanted fairyland

Sepia Saturday has gone rather lovey-dovey this week and I'm on theme with this sentimental little number posted in 1914.
Till We Meet Again
To part would be too keen a pain,
Did we not hope to meet again,
Again to wander hand in hand,
Through love's enchanted fairyland.

Much, much more of the same over at Sepia Saturday.

Saturday 8 December 2012

Workers

This is the nearest image I've got to this week's Sepia Saturday theme of overalls and working clothes.
These chaps are definitely wearing work clothes and work boots; the chap in the centre looks to be clad in a pair of overalls under his jacket. There's no information on the postcard so we can only speculate where and who they were in real life.

More of this week's entries over at Sepia Saturday.

Friday 7 December 2012

Crossed arms

Stamped on the reverse: Bill Hopkins Collection, Notting Hill Gate, London. 21 Kensington Park Road, W11.

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Saturday 1 December 2012

Jolly boating weather

We're on the water with Sepia Saturday this week.
The image is another page from my Edwardian photograph album and features the same cast of characters as before; this time they're boating on Derwent Water in the Lake District.

More messing about in boats over at Sepia Saturday.

Friday 30 November 2012

Thursday 29 November 2012

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Dudley, lounging

Written on the reverse: Dudley Hughes, 244 Highlands Blvd, Leigh-on-Sea.

Saturday 24 November 2012

Two

This week's Sepia Saturday theme image shows two little girls; I'm almost on theme with a girl and boy who are more than likely sister and brother.
It's another 'orphan' photograph without name, date, place or photographer's details. I'd love to know who they were and when the photograph was taken. Doesn't that serious little boy in his tweed suit just make your heart melt?

More heart-melting images over at Sepia Saturday.